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The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking to focus less on IT and more on rocket science so it's launching a private cloud to store sensitive information, create a common infrastructure and enable scientists to work together more easily.

"We wanted to encourage the use of a common platform across the agency," said Filippo Angelucci, head of the IT department and ESA's CIO. "Today, through the cloud, you could have engineers and scientists set up their computing environment in a few minutes, instead of weeks and months, as they did in the past when they had to go through a big process of buying servers and getting them set up."

The ESA, an international organization with 20 member states focused on space research, has been using public cloud services from different vendors like AWS to store public data from different satellites and from the Gaia mission to map the galaxy.